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Krist Novoselic, Catherine Thomasson, Earl Kingik, and Starhawk @ Climate Convergence!
author: Climate Convergence e-mail: westcoast --- at --- climateconvergence.org
August 8-14th
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action
6 Days of Low Impact Living, High Impact Action, and multi-issue organizing.
www.climateconvergence.org
Climate Convergence - August 8-14 in SW Washington
Featured Presentations and Performers:
(schedule online at www.climateconvergence.org/west/a...s.html)
A picture lecture of The Beehive Design Collective's DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE: Tales of Ants and Economics in the America.
Karen Coulter, the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy - Ending Corporate Dominance, regaining power over power.
Eva Dale and Scott Winn, Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites - anti-racism in organizing.
Dr. Alder Fuller, Ph.D. in Ecology - Climate Change 101, Potential effects of climate change in our region, considerations for survival & adaptation to climate change
Mike Hudema, co-founder of No War, No Warming and author of "An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away" - Creative Action Planning; Alberta's Tar Sands Development; Anti-corporate campaigning; No War, No Warming.
Earl Kingik of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands), Inupiat subsistence hunter, member of the Native Village of Point Hope, Alaska - Climate Change in Alaska, the Environmental Consequences of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
East Valley Liberation Army (debut performance!), featuring Krist Novoselic (formerly of Nirvana) and more of Wahkiakum county's finest musicians.
Rainforest Action Network - Organizing against the coal industry and its financial backers.
Pat Rasmussen, World Temperate Rainforest Network - Forests and Climate Change.
Rising Tide North America - Action planning; international climate policy and energy imperialism in the Africa and the Americas
Brenna Sahatjian, folk singer, member of the Riot Folk Collective.
Yalonda Sind? and Jeri Sundvall Williams, regional environmental justice leaders - "The Environment as We See It: An Introduction to Environmental Racism"
The Sprocketts, Portland's Original Minibike Dance Troupe.
Starhawk, global justice activist and organizer, author of The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing.
Catherine Thomasson, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Global Warming and Public Health; Connecting War and Climate Change.
Jorge Tadeo Vargas, La Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente (Border Health and Environment Network) ? Liquefied Natural Gas and unsustainable hydroelectric development on the west coast of Mexico.
Various presenters - The struggle for energy justice on the Columbia River, voices from the local movement against Liquefied Natural Gas, natural history of the Columbia River.
Shelly Vendiola, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice - Alliance building and cross cultural organizing
Willapa Hills - Traditional folk music from the hills of Wahkiakum County (where the Convergence is taking place)
JD Williams, Tribal Lawyer - Working for environmental justice across cultural and race boundaries.
homepage: www.climateconvergence.org
phone: 541-521-1832
portland.indymedia.org/en/200...2.shtml
author: Climate Convergence e-mail: westcoast --- at --- climateconvergence.org
August 8-14th
West Coast Convergence for Climate Action
6 Days of Low Impact Living, High Impact Action, and multi-issue organizing.
www.climateconvergence.org
Climate Convergence - August 8-14 in SW Washington
Featured Presentations and Performers:
(schedule online at www.climateconvergence.org/west/a...s.html)
A picture lecture of The Beehive Design Collective's DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE: Tales of Ants and Economics in the America.
Karen Coulter, the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy - Ending Corporate Dominance, regaining power over power.
Eva Dale and Scott Winn, Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites - anti-racism in organizing.
Dr. Alder Fuller, Ph.D. in Ecology - Climate Change 101, Potential effects of climate change in our region, considerations for survival & adaptation to climate change
Mike Hudema, co-founder of No War, No Warming and author of "An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away" - Creative Action Planning; Alberta's Tar Sands Development; Anti-corporate campaigning; No War, No Warming.
Earl Kingik of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands), Inupiat subsistence hunter, member of the Native Village of Point Hope, Alaska - Climate Change in Alaska, the Environmental Consequences of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
East Valley Liberation Army (debut performance!), featuring Krist Novoselic (formerly of Nirvana) and more of Wahkiakum county's finest musicians.
Rainforest Action Network - Organizing against the coal industry and its financial backers.
Pat Rasmussen, World Temperate Rainforest Network - Forests and Climate Change.
Rising Tide North America - Action planning; international climate policy and energy imperialism in the Africa and the Americas
Brenna Sahatjian, folk singer, member of the Riot Folk Collective.
Yalonda Sind? and Jeri Sundvall Williams, regional environmental justice leaders - "The Environment as We See It: An Introduction to Environmental Racism"
The Sprocketts, Portland's Original Minibike Dance Troupe.
Starhawk, global justice activist and organizer, author of The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing.
Catherine Thomasson, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Global Warming and Public Health; Connecting War and Climate Change.
Jorge Tadeo Vargas, La Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente (Border Health and Environment Network) ? Liquefied Natural Gas and unsustainable hydroelectric development on the west coast of Mexico.
Various presenters - The struggle for energy justice on the Columbia River, voices from the local movement against Liquefied Natural Gas, natural history of the Columbia River.
Shelly Vendiola, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice - Alliance building and cross cultural organizing
Willapa Hills - Traditional folk music from the hills of Wahkiakum County (where the Convergence is taking place)
JD Williams, Tribal Lawyer - Working for environmental justice across cultural and race boundaries.
homepage: www.climateconvergence.org
phone: 541-521-1832
portland.indymedia.org/en/200...2.shtml
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